The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-11
Labor and Industrial Notes.

The Oregon Legislature has defeated all the
labor bills presented to It,
In Topeka, Kan, the newly elected officers of
the State Assembly took pledge of total absti
hence.
Between 5000 and 10000 silk operatives are
idle in Paterson, n. j., on account of the strike
of the dyers The employers decline to 6eal
with organized labor.
A mass indignation meeting is to be held in
New York to denounce Judge Brown. of the
United States Circuit Court for his decision II at
boycotting Is illegal, and that members of asso-
Citations who enforce boycotts are liable to civil
and criminal prosecution.
The labor fair of the trades assembly at
Wheeling Melted 81, GOO. It will be used to fur
Iish the hall and reading room. The trades
assembly of that city. composed of thirty nine
organizations. will in week or two have the
finest hall in the Ohio valley.
The Cincinnati boot and shoe makers have
joint board of arbitration of employers and
workmen, which has been successful in fixing
the wages for the season. A street-car strike
was settled by arbitration basis of ST. 80 for
| twelve hours work, and Is cents per hour for
| extra time.
| The st. Louis Consolidated Mining Company
controls sixty coal mines in Illinois A number
| of new mines are being opened in that State
| Sales in Missouri and Iowa. and little industries
| sprnging up in those States, are creating quito
demand for fuel, aud the demand for Penusyl
vania coke has In consequence increased, but the
higher freight rates. it is expected, will set back
| the demand.
The eight hour agitation is beginning to take
| shape in several Western cities and towns. The
| St Louis carpenters have led off with demand
| for five cents per hour advance for nine hours
per day. The bricklayers have asked ffty-nine
cents and eight hours per day. The stove-mold-
ers want higher wages. but expect to be locked
out. The ST. Louis Trades and Labor Assembly
| will be organized on May l.
| Several Belgium and English glass and iron
| manufacturers have been making inquiries which
| may possibly involve the moving of their works
to the natural gas district in western Pennsyl-
vania. Several sites have already been pur-
| chased in that region, and others contracted
for. The Belgium plate glass makers find that
natural gas produces quality of plate glass
fully equal to if not superior to their own.
Neither the employees nor employed have
much confidence in the New York Board OF Ar
bitration. An effort is being made to improve
the legislation upon which it is based, but
the spirit of the workinener Of that city is to
fight IL out rather than compromise. The
New York longshoremen who were badly de-
feated, hass taken steps to guard against future
endorsements which led them into the strike.
The new scale of printers wages in Chicago.
established by joint agreement, will be 46 cents
on morning papers and Al cents on evening pa
| pers. Advertisements will be set by the week
| The hours remain the same. The agreement il
to last five years The St Louis printers are
disappointed at the Chicago settlement. St
Louis rates are 40 cents for morning papers anG
30 for evening The of the New Haver
printers, who were convicted of boycotting thu
daily paper in that city, has been passed upor
by the Supreme Court, and the decision is con
frmed
{ fresh crop of cooperative enterprises il
a visible. In Buffalo two cooperative grocerie
and one cigar factory have been started. Sixty
mon are making good wages at the cooperative
stove foundry in Somerset. Mass. In New Yori
city the cigar makers will buy large factory
and expend $50, 900 in stock and appliances; fft